I’m going to break my golden rule and write this in first person. I figured I owe Bill Hicks this much. I’d been a massive fan since I saw him on Channel 4 years ago. I loved him the same way I...
By blurring the audience’s focus right from the opening shot, director Giuseppe Piccioni starts as he means to go on. As we adjust our vision, we realise we are in a swimming pool. The dazzling...
This week, France mourns the loss of one of the nation’s most influential anthropologists and thinkers. Claude Lévi-Strauss died after enduring cardiac arrest last Friday, just twenty-nine days...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. As a child, British director Stephen Poliakoff would drive around with his father at night, looking into rich...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. Early on in “Dear Lemon Lima,” dreamy Vanessa is told by her specky git of a boyfriend, Philip, “You need to...
Like many people, I came to politics—and writing about politics--through music. I discovered punk rock, and it led me to different ways of thinking about the world. Music has always been a way to...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. “Blessed,” adapted from the play “Who’s Afraid Of The Working Class,” should really be titled “Who’s...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. The camera is low, prowling and probing through a car park kicked on by the jittery score. A van is jimmied and...
Finnish rockers The 69 Eyes have been around since the 80's, but it’s only recently that they’ve begun to make inroads into the American market. With a new vampire-themed album released just in...
Mark Farnsworth is currently reviewing selected films from the London Film Festival. The soothing sound of passing cars, the fluttering reflections of sun-kissed trees and a sleeping girl in the back...
